[U] Ahem. "By July 10" Is Crystal Clear. It Means EXACTLY What It Says...

UPDATED -- end of day, Pacific: All parties are due back in court at 10 AM Pacific on Monday. I think this declaration from ICE, filed during the day on Friday, has. . . frosted the able judge (pun intended). So the judge has ordered all parties back on Monday morning.

It seems ICE is trying, by a factual declaration, to dictate to the District Court, what it will, and will not, do. That's not cricket. [Note that ICE said it might only allow some parents to be with their children AFTER the parent is free from custody. That would plainly violate both the Flores consent decree, and the injunction in Ms. L., this case.] I suspect there will be Hell to pay on Monday. End, updated portion.

I will likely have more, later today, after the status conference in San Diego's federal District Court before the able Judge Sabraw, this morning (and my own court appearances) -- but Chad Readler, for Baby-Trump, has filed a rather pedantic set of papers overnight in the Southern District.

In these papers -- he indicates that HHS, INS, ICE and Homeland Security are having a hard time reuniting children under five, with their parents. [One child under the age of two, after 85 days, when returned to her parents, was covered in lice, and apparently hadn't been bathed even once.] This is true (but unmentioned) by Mr. Readler: almost none of the children were tracked with even simple identifiers, matching them to a real parent -- from whom they were snatched, at the border by ICE now weeks and months ago.

Yet he has the gall to tell the court he may not be able to meet the deadlines in the injunction because ICE and HHS are being so. . . careful, to avoid handing babies over to child traffickers. I am sick to my stomach -- it is unlikely that one tenth of one per cent of the 3,000 children kidnapped by ICE -- or even three of them, would have been traveling with a child trafficker when apprehended by ICE. But those three, if they exist at all, are Mr. Readler's excuse for keeping some 2,997 children from their parents. In unlicensed, for profit, Trump-donor affiliated baby jails, thousands of miles into the interior of our nation, in most cases. Here is the 14 page PDF -- and a bit:

. . . .The processes that HHS has developed in order to fulfill its statutory obligations are critical to protecting children against the well-documented risk of trafficking or abuse, but they also require HHS to follow procedures that are time consuming, even in this unique context. Defendants thus seek confirmation about the Court’s intent in its order as it relates to those procedures and, as appropriate, relief from the Court’s deadlines. . . .

23andMe had offered -- two full weeks ago -- to begin expedited DNA testing, gratis. Had the small handed Cheeto accepted that offer, the DNA results would ALREADY be back -- and no court-ordered deadline would be missed. But Trump is right now, very likely awarding a no-bid (expensive) and delay-loaded DNA testing contract -- you guessed it! -- to one of his donors. For profit. I am beyond disgusted. Off to court, now.

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